With most of the media channels focusing on readership and advertising dollars, it will make sense to put more sensational, entertaining and “gossipy” news and this often depicts cases of negative and even criminal behaviour in our society.

Thus, I usually find a dearth of heartwarming news about acts of kindness and good.

Venerable Jing Yuan has talked about Master Ri-Chang’s method of 观功念恩 (Observing Merits and Appreciate Kindness or OMAK) and how it can help in our practice:

So, let’s start having stories of kindness and compassion in this forum.
I will start with this video done up by the Bliss & Wisdom group accounting some of their members’ efforts in providing medical help to the needy in Mongolia

There is this article about a man who gave a generous tip to a waitress who was going through a hard time. What he said was a good reminder - “We have two hands, one is to work hard and the other is to help others.”

"We have two hands, one is to work hard and the other is to help others." These words moved Stomp contributor XYW to tears during her night shift at a restaurant recently, and tugged at the heartstrings of netizens after being shared on Stomp. A...

AN ELDERLY man, who died of cancer, left his three-room flat to a charitable neighbour who had provided him with free meals for three years.Retiree Tan Cheng Tey, 65, and his wife Maria, 45, live in a two-room rental flat at Block 23, Chai Chee...

Singaporean of the Day is a project created by a group of friends, through conversations with people from all corners of Singapore. We talked to people on the streets, in the malls, at coffee shops, schools, void decks and even trains, to catch a...

Our current Speaker of Parlilament, Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, showing the way in volunteering at the Hospice.
One of the comments said it well, “It was heart warming and inspiring to know …in Singapore there are many selfless people who CARE.”

My mind started drifting off and I happened to notice this young man walking along the pavement a distance away. He was attired in sports gear. Probably just finished a game of football.

Then, I saw him stumble. Did he trip on something?

He bent over to look and picked up something gingerly and carried it over to the grass patch.
With much care, he placed that object away from the concrete pavement.

And that was when I realised that he had probably picked up a snail or a small living thing and had wanted to save it from being trampled upon by pedestrians - as he would have surely did if he had not seen it in time.

To say I was impressed will be an understatement. Such compassion is very much around us!

After learning to meditate while trapped in a flooded cave for 10 days, the Wild Boars soccer team may become monks to honor the diver who died during their rescue.

The 12 boys who were trapped in a flooded cave system in northern Thailand said at a press conference that they are considering becoming novice monks as a tribute to Saman Kunan, the 38-year-old former Thai Navy Seal who died during rescue efforts.

Banphot Konkum, father of 13-year-old Duangpetch Promthep, one of the team members, said all the Wild Boars will enter monkhood to honor Kunan.

In Theravada Buddhism, ordaining as a monk is a holy act. Those who ordain are believed to acquire a great deal of merit because they are devoting themselves to studying the teachings of the Buddha. In Buddhism, merit is understood as the value created by performing a wholesome activity, such as meditating. Many Buddhists practice “dedicating merit” to others (see an explanation and instruction from Lama Palden Drolma). If the boys become novice monks, they will donate their gained merit to Kunan’s memory.

Dr Chao, who had voluntarily cut short his leave in the US to join his colleagues in fighting Sars, succumbed to the virus in 2003. His daughter Beatrice was just three when she lost her father. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

When Mr Veera Sekaran - then a Primary 4 pupil - could not afford to buy a pen for class, Mrs Chee Siew Chuan got his classmates to give him a set of stationery and a school bag.. Read more at straitstimes.com.